United Kingdom
see all genres ›The U.K. comprises four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and (most contentiously) Northern Ireland, each with their own overlapping but distinct film histories.
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Brazil: An Inconvenient History
As Brazil prepares to celebrate its 500th anniversary in the year 2000, it will display to the rest of the world its most brilliant features: heady carnivals, samba, football and a bewildering ethnic diversity. But behind this glittering facade, lies a much more disturbing story; the history of the biggest...Start your free trial to watch -
The Butterfly Tattoo
From the moment they first met, secrets from a hidden past would tear them apart. Chris and Jenny are teenage lovers from the gritty side of modern Oxford, England in this adaptation of the acclaimed novel by Philip Pullman (author of "The Golden Compass"). Chris, a naive lad, suspended between school and...Start your free trial to watch -
The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer
This early film by renowned animators Stephen and Timothy Quay is structured as a series of little lessons in perception, taught by a puppet simulacrum of Jan Svankmajer (whose head is an opened book) to a doll (whose head the master empties of dross and refills with a similar open book). Each of the nine...Start your free trial to watch
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Candlelight in Algeria
James Mason stars as fugitive British agent Alan Thurston on a mission to find secret photographs of the location of the Allied invasion of North Africa before the Nazis. Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is drawn into the intrigue of the event when she decides to help Thurston by hiding him from Dr. Muller...Start your free trial to watch -
Caravaggio
Jarman’s most profound reflection on art, sexuality and identity retells the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld. CARAVAGGIO incorporates the painter’s precise aesthetic into the movie’s own visuals, while touching on all of...Start your free trial to watch -
The Chain
Phil Mulloy’s contribution to a series of animated films commemorating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights takes a characteristically dark view of the human condition. The discovery of a treasure map precipitates individual fisticuffs, declarations of war and all-out genocide. Lustrous chalk figures and symbolically...Start your free trial to watch
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Charlotte Rampling: The Look
Legendary actress Charlotte Rampling is "the perfect confluence of brains and beauty" (Time Out New York) and THE LOOK is the entrancing documentary that brings you into intimate contact with both. Director Angelina Maccarone has Rampling engage in candid conversations with many of her closest friends,...Start your free trial to watch -
Child in the House
Elizabeth (Mandy Miller) moves in with her uncaring aunt and uncle while her mother is hospitalized. Her fugitive father (Stanley Baker) returns to see his daughter and Elizabeth must vow to never revel his whereabouts. She must now choose to tell the truth or be loyal to her estranged father.Start your free trial to watch -
Coals to Newcastle
Leeds, U.K. The birthplace of funk? Not quite, but the hometown of a rising funk-jazz phenomenon, the New Mastersounds. By offering the first Jazz degree in Europe, Leeds College of Music attracted scores of talented musicians to this Northern former industrial hub to master forms of music that had been...Start your free trial to watch
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The Comb
THE COMB opens in the shadowy bedroom of a sleeping beauty and seems to enter her mind and burrow into her dreams. Based on a fragment of text by the Austrian writer Robert Walser, THE COMB is an exploration of the subconscious visualized as a labyrinthine playhouse haunted by a doll-like explorer. A mesmerizing and resonant...Start your free trial to watch -
Contraband
Set in England during the early days of WW II, CONTRABAND stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson as a Danish sea captain and his enigmatic passenger who are kidnapped by a cell of Nazi spies operating from a basement in London's Soho. In evocatively Hitchcockian fashion, the plot progresses as a chase that puts the characters...Start your free trial to watch
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Curse of the Voodoo
Big game hunter Mike Stacey (Bryant Haliday) leads a safari in the African jungle. After shooting and killing a lion, a tribe of lion worshippers place a curse on Stacey, vowing to kill him by witchcraft. The curse follows Mike back to London where it begins to take a terrible toll. After speaking with an...Start your free trial to watch
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The Dead Outside
In the stark aftermath of a neurological pandemic, two strangers come together on an isolated Scottish farm. April, a 16 year old survivor with a dark past has survived alone for months. Daniel, a man bereaved, clings desperately on to hope of life in the outside world. Questioning his own sanity in the...Start your free trial to watch -
Dear Phone
In these thirteen accounts about the uses and misuses of the telephone, Peter Greenaway attempts to thwart and distort the philosophical notion of a “writers cinema” into what is pure Greenaway: teasing, eccentric and delightfully surreal. Featuring the quintessentially English red phone booth in an iconic performance and an...Start your free trial to watch




